Ender's Ansible

The ‘Ender’s Game’ film is nominated for three Saturn Awards in the categories of Best Science Fiction Film, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Performance by a Younger Actor.

This year marks the 40th annual Saturn Awards. The awards are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

‘Ender’s Game’ is nominated for Best Science Fiction Film. Other films in the category are Gravity, The Hunger Game: Catching Fire, Pacific Rim, Riddick, and Star Trek into Darkness.

Harrison Ford, who played Colonel Graff in the ‘Ender’s Game’ film, is nominated for Best Supporting Actor. In this category, Ford is nominated with his ‘Ender’s Game’ co-star, Sir Ben Kingsley. Kingsley is not nominated for ‘Ender’s Game’, but rather for his role in ‘Iron Man 3’. Ford’s other competitors in the category include Daniel Bruhl (Rush), George Clooney (Gravity), Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek into Darkness), Tom Hiddleston (Thor: The Dark World), and Bill Nighy (About Time).

Asa Butterfield, the star of ‘Ender’s Game’, is nominated for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. Others nominated in the category are Chloe Grace Moretz (Carrie), Sophie Neliesse (The Book Thief), Saoirse Ronan (How I Live Now), Ty Simpkins (Iron Man 3), and Dylan Sprayberry (Man of Steel).

Winners for this year’s Saturn Awards will be presented in June in Burbank, California.

Rising Shadows has unveiled the American cover for ‘Earth Awakens’ by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. ‘Earth Awakens’ is the third and final installment in the First Formic War prequel trilogy to ‘Ender’s Game’.

Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card’s bestselling novel Ender’s Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.

When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations, and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. But there are a few men and women who see that if Earth doesn’t wake up and pull together, the planet could be lost.

‘Earth Awakens’ will be published on June 10, 2014. You can pre-order it on Amazon.

‘Ender’s Game’ producer, Bob Orci, spoke about the direction of possible ‘Ender’s Game’ movie sequels.

Summit and Entertainment hold the rights to thirteen of the books in the Enderverse, but between Summit Entertainment and OddLot, Orci isn’t sure who controls what.

In a new interview with Crave Online, Orci says he is not set on the idea that they would remake one of the books page-per-page. He says that they could mix story lines from a few of the books or maybe create something original.

“Or it could be potentially original because in ‘Speaker for the Dead‘ you pick him up when he’s already a man,” Orci says. “There might be an in between step if that happens.”

Of course, there is no confirmed film sequel for ‘Ender’s Game’.

Shuho Sato, is creating a manga inspired by ‘Ender’s Game’ in conjunction with the Japanese release of the ‘Ender’s Game’ film.

For those unfamiliar, manga is a Japanese-style comic. The ‘Ender’s Game’ inspired manga will be written and illustrated by Sato. Sato has written popular mangas such has ‘Hello to Jack Black’.

The manga will be published on Sato’s website and readers will be able to view it for free. The manga does not yet have a specific release date, but its release will be in loose conjunction with the Japanese release of the ‘Ender’s Game’ film by Disney on Jan. 18.

Source: Anime News Network and animeanime

Patch Card

Cryptozoic Entertainment released a list of ‘Ender’s Game’ trading card signers, which include Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield.

The complete list of signers, so far, includes:

Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin
Brandon Soo Hoo as Fly Molo
Aramis Knight as Bean
Khylin Rhambo as Dink Meeker
Conor Carroll as Bernard
Suraj Partha as Alai
Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Dap
Jimmy ‘Jax’ Pinchak as Peter Wiggin
Andrea Powell as Theresa Wiggin
Caleb J. Thaggard as Stilson
Han Soto as Colonel Graff’s aide
Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff

There is not yet a specific release date for the trading cards. For more information, visit Cryptozoic Entertainment.